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A Song for Europe [Popular ...
"The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continent and abroad. The Contest is broadcast live in over 30 countries with over 100 million viewers annually. Established in 1956 as a televised spectacle to unify postwar Western Europe through music, the Contest features singers who represent a participating nation with a new popular song. Viewers vote by phone for their favourite performance, though they cannot vote for their own country's entry. This process alone reveals much about national identities and identifications, as voting patterns expose deep-seated alliances and animosities among participating countries. Here, an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including musicology, communications, history, sociology, English and German studies, explore how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, and the aesthetics of camp. For some countries, participation in Eurovision has been simultaneously an assertion of modernity and a claim to membership in Europe and the West. Eurovision is sometimes regarded as a low-brow camp spectacle of little aesthetic or intellectual value. The essays in this collection often contradict this assumption, demonstrating that the contest has actually been a significant force and forecaster for social, cultural and political transformations in postwar Europe."--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun29195433 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun29195433 m o d | cr#cnu|||||||| 180706r20162007enkg ob 001 0 eng d 1-351-57799-9 1-315-09773-7 1-351-57798-0 10.4324/9781315097732 doi FlBoTFG FlBoTFG rda e------ 782.42164/0794 22 A Song for Europe Recurso electrónico] Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest edited by Ivan Raykoff, The New School, USA and Robert Deam Tobin, Whitman College, USa 1st ed Oxon, England Routledge 2016 Oxon, England Oxon, England Routledge 1 recurso electrónico (213 pages) illustrations 1 recurso electrónico (213 pages) Text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing chapter 1 Camping on the borders of Europe -- chapter 2 Return to ethnicity: The cultural significance of musical change in the Eurovision Song Contest Alf Bjornberg. -- chapter 3 Eurovision at 50: Post-Wall and Post-Stonewall Robert Deam Tobin. -- chapter 4 Chanson, canzone, Schlager, and song: Switzerland's identity struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest Michael Baumgartner. -- chapter 5 Chasing the "magic formula" for success: Ralph Siegel and the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson -- chapter 6 Fernando, Filippo, and Milly: Bringing blackness to the Eurovision stage Lutgard Mutsaers. -- chapter 7 Finland, zero points: Nationality, failure, and shame in the Finnish media Mari Pajala. -- chapter 8 The socialist star: Yugoslavia, Cold War politics and the Eurovision Song Contest Dean Vuletic. -- chapter 9 Lithuanian contests and European dreams Bjorn Ingvoldstad. -- chapter 10 "Russian body and soul": t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003 Dana Heller. -- chapter 11 Gay brotherhood: Israeli gay men and the Eurovision Song Contest Dafna Lemish. -- chapter 12 Articulating the historical moment: Turkey, Europe, and Eurovision 2003 Thomas Solomon. -- chapter 13 "Everyway that I can": Auto-Orientalism at Eurovision 2003 Matthew Gumpert. -- chapter 14 Idol thoughts: Nationalism in the pan-Arab vocal competition Superstar Katherine Meizel. -- chapter 15 "Changing Japan, unchanging Japan": Shifting visions of the Red and White Song Contest Shelley D. Brunt "The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continent and abroad. The Contest is broadcast live in over 30 countries with over 100 million viewers annually. Established in 1956 as a televised spectacle to unify postwar Western Europe through music, the Contest features singers who represent a participating nation with a new popular song. Viewers vote by phone for their favourite performance, though they cannot vote for their own country's entry. This process alone reveals much about national identities and identifications, as voting patterns expose deep-seated alliances and animosities among participating countries. Here, an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including musicology, communications, history, sociology, English and German studies, explore how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, and the aesthetics of camp. For some countries, participation in Eurovision has been simultaneously an assertion of modernity and a claim to membership in Europe and the West. Eurovision is sometimes regarded as a low-brow camp spectacle of little aesthetic or intellectual value. The essays in this collection often contradict this assumption, demonstrating that the contest has actually been a significant force and forecaster for social, cultural and political transformations in postwar Europe."--Provided by publisher Festival de Eurovisión Popular music- Competitions- Europe. Popular music- Political aspects- Europe. Electronic books Raykoff, Ivan editor Tobin, Robert Deam editor 0-7546-5878-3 Ashgate popular and folk music series